Business Intelligence

Microsoft is committed to making Hadoop accessible to a broader class of end users, developers and IT professionals. Accelerate your Hadoop deployment through simplicity of Hadoop on Windows, and the use of familiar Microsoft products.

Ease of use with familiar tools

• Deploy Hadoop in hours through a simple installation approach from Microsoft.

Simplified programming

• Extend your .NET and Visual Studio skills to program against "Big Data".

• Take advantage of simplified programming with JavaScript libraries.

• Execute JavaScript MapReduce, Pig-Latin or Hive jobs against your Hadoop cluster right from your browser.

Community Contributions

• Priority on proposing contributions back to Apache Hadoop.

• Compatibility with Hadoop tools such as Pig, Hive, and Java. Applications built on Apache Hadoop can be easily migrated to our distribution to run on Windows Azure or Windows Server.

Take advantage of an Enterprise ready distribution based on Apache Hadoop that offers:

Enterprise ready security, management and performance

• Enterprise-class security through integration with Active Directory.

• High performance with consistently high data throughput.

• Simplified management of the Hadoop infrastructure through integration with Microsoft’s management tools such as System Center. In addition, Microsoft simplifies the deployment of Hadoop by neatly packaging its components together.

• Integration of Hadoop to your Enterprise BI solution through new Hadoop connectors for SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse.

• Choice of Hybrid IT deployments for Big Data on Windows Server and Windows Azure.

Microsoft’s Big Data solution offers breakthrough insights by enabling customers to combine the richness of relational data from databases with unstructured data from Hadoop.

Our Hadoop based distribution for Windows Server and Windows Azure enables customers to:

• Analyze Hadoop data with familiar tools such as Excel, thanks to a Hive ODBC Driver and Hive Add-in for Excel.

• Reduce time to solution through integration of Hive and Microsoft BI tools such as PowerPivot and Power View.

• Build corporate BI solutions including Hadoop data, through integration of Hive and leading BI tools such as SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services.